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1.1North American A male students' society in a university or college.

‘This incident is particularly distressing to the members of the University administration because all fraternities and sororities participated in a workshop a year ago to address a similar situation at another institution.’

‘Targeted populations include freshmen, sorority and fraternity members, and students who have been caught violating college alcohol policies.’

‘In the 38 years since blacks students were admitted to the University of Alabama, none of the school's white fraternities and sororities has knowingly accepted an African American as a member.’

‘He was also active in intramural athletics and a dramatics group and was president of his college fraternity.’

‘Students who lived on campus and were involved in fraternities, sororities or extracurricular activities were less likely to drop out of college.’

‘Locally, businesses and Iowa State University fraternities and sororities also contributed.’

‘Our conversation concerned our roles as fraternity and sorority people while in college.’

‘The projects themselves were trivial, closer to a test contrived by a college fraternity than a business school, and that was the point.’

‘Single-sex social organizations, such as fraternities and sororities, may also affect late adolescents' attitudes and actions.’

‘Purdue University suspended a fraternity for five years and disciplined two others in April for various infractions during a party and during a fight at the student union.’

‘During the course of the weekend, the fraternities and sororities on campus competed against each other in a variety of events.’

‘Anyone who has been a member of a sorority or fraternity will be acquainted with some of the letter names.’

‘Funding would support new systems in college dormitories as well as fraternity and sorority housing.’

‘The news item was on college fraternities - or ‘frat boys’ - and their relationship to violence against women.’

‘For centuries, traditional Maya dances have been preserved by the religious men's fraternities called cofradias.’

‘He appealed to Church leaders to consult more with members of the Christian fraternity before making statements on behalf of their members to avoid divisions in the church.’

‘During this time churches had been plundered, pious fraternities dissolved, new monastic vows forbidden, and many religious houses closed down.’

‘Many noted that the fraternity served the churches through its inculcation of moral virtues and brotherly love.’

‘This, he said, had helped ease the poverty levels and called on the Church fraternity to emulate the Catholics' gesture.’

‘The rest of the church fraternity in NZ becomes an easy target, an easy place to direct peoples anger.’

‘It has smaller fraternities of brothers living among the poorest of the poor in Bangladesh, Calcutta and Brazil, but the center of the community is Taize.’

‘Katherine was also the member of at least two religious fraternities that had dedications to St Katherine.’

‘They belong to the Greek Orthodox fraternity, which shares control over the church with other denominations but is the dominant force within the sacred site.’

‘At the meeting, there were some who wanted him put on notice that he had violated the protocols of episcopal fraternity by acting as he did.’

‘Brothers of the fraternity gave him an update of the ‘situation’ to proceed further.’

‘It was about differences. [Interruption] I say to the member opposite, who is ranting, that at that time there was difference between the religious fraternity.’

‘Thus, membership of one of the guilds or fraternities which became common features of the Christian life in towns in this period might require a substantial entry fee as well as many incidental expenses later.’

‘As one of the oldest fraternities in existence today, it is not surprising that Freemasonry ‘places much importance on history which shapes and determines much of what we do,’ the Lodge Pattaya West Winds Master said.’

‘Genuine synthesis was never a feasible proposition given the Muslim religious fraternity's profound horror and disdain of native traditions.’

‘The British converted it into an Anglican Church in 1795 and in 1949 it joined the fraternity of the Church of South India.’

2[mass noun]Friendship and mutual support within a group:

‘the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity’

‘Freedom, democracy and fraternity are people's slogans and globalization and liberalization are the slogans of imperialism.’

‘The French Revolutionary motto of ‘liberty, fraternity and equality’ is as vivid, over two hundred years after it was written, as any image on the matter.’

‘Many of the artisans and labourers supported the ideals of that revolution-liberty, equality and fraternity.’